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  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Work with Kansas GGP to enhance its mechanism to ensure subrecipient monitoring is conducted timely in accordance with its monitoring policy.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    $10,621
    Remedy $10,621 in unsupported contractual service expenditures.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure Kansas GGP enhances its subrecipient monitoring policies and procedures to identify potential conflicts of interest and the verification of contractual service expenditures.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure Kansas GGP strengthens its controls to improve the accuracy of subaward identification numbers entered in the accounting system.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    We recommend that OJP work with the University of Alabama to develop and implement procedures to ensure it accurately reports its performance data.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    We recommend that OJP require the University of Alabama to develop and implement internal controls to ensure charges to federal awards for salaries and wages for all employees are supported and accurately reflect time spent on funded activities.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    We recommend that OJP require the University of Alabama to determine whether the work certified on the grant by its exempt employees is consistent with the actual work performed and remedy any over-reimbursement that the university may have received.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Establish clear data entry standards, including supporting document linkages, file naming conventions, and update schedules for the system inventory data stored in JCAM.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Establish requirements to document justifications for special system categorizations in JCAM, such as FISMA reportability, mission essential systems, critical infrastructure, and high value assets.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Consolidate IT inventory recordkeeping guidance to ensure consistent management and maintenance of information system data across all components.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Develop and implement a plan for performing regular inventory validations across all DOJ information systems. The plan should consider existing best practices, including the USMS monthly validation process, to ensure JCAM records for each system are complete and accurate.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Evaluate the privacy workflow process and collaborate with components to streamline the IPA and PIA review, approval, and documentation processes to ensure timely completion of privacy assessments.
  • Unresolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    $6,844,788
    Review and put to better use, as appropriate, the remaining $6,844,788 of the $22,068,208 in undisbursed balances in expired STOP and SASP grant accounts.
  • Unresolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    $625,723
    Remedy the remaining $625,723 of the $1,159,509 in unallowable costs, which are excess drawdowns due to OVW from the SAAs.
  • Unresolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    Develop a sustainable plan to comply with federal closeout requirements. This plan should include regular monitoring of expired grants, address root causes of closeout issues, and ensure long-term adherence to federal closeout requirements.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that TSS develops written policies and procedures for capturing and reporting VOCA-funded activities and distributes this guidance to relevant personnel.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that TSS develops formal controls to ensure the eligibility of each client served and that information is used by TSS to ensure that only those clients who are victims of a financial crime are included in the performance data reported under these subawards.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    $3,366
    Remedy the $3,366 in unsupported excess reimbursements to TSS for Subaward 3758706.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that TSS develops adequate controls to help ensure compliance with Texas OOG policy requiring FSRs be based on actual costs incurred during the performance period.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that TSS takes adequate steps to comply with Texas OOG policy and notify its grant manager of the adjustments made for Subaward 3758705, submit a revised FSR, and refund any disallowed amounts identified.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that TSS develops adequate controls for making corrections to closed subawards in alignment with the requirements established in the Texas OOG's Grantee Standard Conditions and Responsibilities Memorandum.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that Huckleberry incorporates detailed procedures to accurately report performance funded with the VOCA funds.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure Huckleberry implements an adequate accounting system that accurately accounts for federal funds awarded, including the ability to account for subaward funds and expenditures separately.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    $724,578
    Remedy $579,145 in unsupported subaward expenditures and $145,433 in unsupported match contributions for the UV and AT subawards.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that Huckleberry develops, implements, and disseminates written policies and procedures to comply with the DOJ Grants Financial Guide and federal award requirements. Specifically, the policies should ensure accurate allocation of expenses and timely posting of revenues by funding source.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that Huckleberry develops, implements, and disseminates written policies and procedures to comply with the DOJ Grants Financial Guide and 7 federal award requirements. Specifically, the policies should ensure employees' distribution of activities are tracked to facilitate allocation of personnel cost to the subawards.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that OCDA implements controls to ensure that all required federal award information, regulations, and terms and conditions are documented in subaward agreements and disseminated to subrecipients.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that OCDA establishes subrecipient monitoring policies and procedures as required by the VOCA Guidelines.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that OCDA conducts required monitoring of its subrecipient.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that OCDA establishes controls to ensure accurate performance data is being entered into PMT and that supporting documentation is maintained as required by the DOJ Grants Financial Guide.